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Here is spider webbing on a dead-looking branch of native Prickly-Phlox (Leptodactylon californicum, Polemoniaceae). Look again - the branch has some green buds for the new rain year, compare this photo of a plant before and after greening up. I'm not sure, but this might be "cribellate" webbing which is fuzzy and lacks any kind of sticky stuff, see this photo for another example that runs between whorls of flowers instead of leaves. Maybe this is the work of a cribellate species of Mesh Web Weaver in the family Dictynidae? Happy Web Webnesday! (San Marcos Pass, 6 November 2018)
This is a nest with webbing on a new flower stalk of Canyon Lupine aka Broadleaf Lupine (Lupinus latifolius, Fabaceae) in the woods a couple of days ago. I'm sure it's a caterpillar nest -- I saw it move around in there! I already have my two photos for the Web Wednesday group, but Happy Web Webnesday anyway! (San Marcos Pass, 12 May 2025)
This is fine spider webbing on prickly pear cactus leaves in the garden. Cactus leaves?? Yes, these cacti have little succulent bracts or scales that appear before the spines and fall away after a while, there's more info here. The flower buds have these little leafy bracts also. I didn't realize when I got this photo that it also shows the spider! Start at the center and look up and to the right, I'll make a note. The spider's size and the type of web suggest that it's a Mesh Web Weaver spider in the family Dictynidae, but I wouldn't bet the farm on it. Happy Web Webnesday! (San Marcos Pass, 25 May 2020)
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Here is fine spider webbing on a branch of native Scrub Oak (Quercus berberidifolia, Fagaceae) in the woods a few days ago. It's the kind of webbing I associate with tiny Mesh Web Weaver spiders in the family Dictynidae, but I really have no idea. If the light wasn't just so, the webbing would be completely invisible - and that's the idea. Happy Web Webnesday! (San Marcos Pass, 13 June 2020)
Transitional webbing
I will post more pictures of it with its helmet once I get the helmet free of all marker
There are two evolutionary hypotheses that I can spin around this web-spinning behavior. One is that this webbing evolved to help hold the chrysalis to a plant surface and later evolved in certain lepidopterans to enclose the chrysalis completely, thus evolving into a cocoon.
This is webbing between dead-looking leaves of native Prickly-Phlox (Leptodactylon californicum, Polemoniaceae). This is more webbing that looks like rigging on a dusty model ship, compare this photo of similar webbing on a different shrub. I believe this is the work of a cribellate species of Mesh Web Weaver in the family Dictynidae, and I have a shot of the tiny spider associated with such webbing in this photo from last spring. I'm still hoping these dead-looking shrubs will revive after our recent rain, and I can see a green leaf bud on this stem even before the rain. Happy Web Webnesday! (San Marcos Pass, 25 December 2020)
Wooden stairs and iron hand rail, winter indoor farmers market (formerly the Hope Webbing Company factory), Pawtucket, RI (phonecam)
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13" x 14" made with vintage french screen-printed fabric with vintage (french) webbing straps. cute little jasmine kitty face bonus.
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Day 359-This one is a very unique shirt to me b/c it is a Marc Ecko shirt I got around the time the first Spider-Mann with Tobey Maguire came out. Its interesting because its old school comic drawings. Plus, it is a smooth shirt, not really silk but feels smooth. The webbing is this sticky material which is also kind of weird to the touch. Its become more pronounced as the years go by. Pretty cool though.
This is a tiny "Garbage Line Spider" (genus Cyclosa) in the Orb-Weaver Spiders (family Araneidae), perched on it's inner web with its thick white stabilimentum webbing. There's no mistaking the bottle-neck shape of this spider's body! You have to remember not to over-expose spiders. I got this photo at 3 stops less than my camera thought was right. (San Marcos Pass, 10 March 2013)
All of these photos were taken in a wildflower meadow owned by a friend. No chemicals are allowed near it and he doesnt cut it until the flowers have seeded. Wildflower hay? hmmm. And there is no ragwort in this field at all. At the moment he has been trying to remove an invasive species from one little part of his land - the himalayan balsam. He seems to be doing pretty well at controlling it and limiting the area it is in. So well done to him.
Greater racket-tailed Drongo
The greater racket-tailed drongo (Dicrurus paradiseus) is a medium-sized Asian bird which is distinctive in having elongated outer tail feathers with webbing restricted to the tips. They are placed along with other drongos in the family Dicruridae. They are conspicuous in the forest habitats often perching in the open and by attracting attention with a wide range of loud calls that include perfect imitations of many other birds. One hypothesis suggested is that these vocal imitations may help in the formation of mixed-species foraging flocks, a feature seen in forest bird communities where many insect feeders forage together. These drongos will sometimes steal insect prey caught or disturbed by other foragers in the flock and another ideas is that vocal mimicry helps them in diverting the attention of smaller birds to aid their piracy. They are diurnal but are active well before dawn and late at dusk. Owing to their widespread distribution and distinctive regional variation, they have become iconic examples of speciation by isolation and genetic drift.
The greater racket-tailed drongo was described by the Swedish naturalist Carl Linnaeus in 1766 in the twelfth edition of his Systema Naturae under the binomial name Cuculus paradiseus. It was one of 240 bird species that Linnaeus added to his twelfth edition based on the 1760 work Ornithologie by the French naturalist Mathurin Jacques Brisson. The current genus Dicrurus was introduced by the French ornithologist Louis Pierre Vieillot in 1816.
There are 13 recognised subspecies:
D. p. grandis (Gould, 1836) – north India through west and north Myanmar and south China to north Indochina
D. p. rangoonensis (Gould, 1836) – central India through Bangladesh, central Myanmar and north Thailand to central Indochina
D. p. paradiseus (Linnaeus, 1766) – south India to south Thailand, north Malay Peninsula and south Indochina
D. p. johni (Hartert, 1902) – Hainan Island (off southeast China)
D. p. ceylonicus Vaurie, 1949 – Sri Lanka
D. p. otiosus (Richmond, 1902) – Andaman Islands
D. p. nicobariensis (Baker, ECS, 1918) – Nicobar Islands
D. p. hypoballus (Oberholser, 1926) – central Malay Peninsula
D. p. platurus Vieillot, 1817 – south Malay Peninsula, Sumatra and nearby islands
D. p. microlophus (Oberholser, 1917 – islands in the South China Sea (Tioman Island, Anambas Islands and the North Natuna Islands)
D. p. brachyphorus (Bonaparte, 1850) – Borneo
D. p. banguey (Chasen & Kloss, 1929) – islands off north Borneo
D. p. formosus (Cabanis, 1851) – Java
In most of its range in Asia, this is the largest of the drongo species and is readily identifiable by the distinctive tail rackets and the crest of curled feather that begin in front of the face above the beak and along the crown to varying extents according to the subspecies. The tail with twirled rackets is distinctive and in flight it can appear as if two large bees were chasing a black bird. In the eastern Himalayas the species can be confused with the lesser racket-tailed drongo, however the latter has flat rackets with the crest nearly absent.
This widespread species includes populations that have distinct variations and several subspecies have been named. The nominate form is found in southern India, mainly in forested areas of the Western Ghats and the adjoining hill forests of peninsular India. The subspecies in Sri Lanka is ceylonicus and is similar to the nominate form but slightly smaller. The subspecies found along the Himalayas is grandis and is the largest and has long glossy neck hackles. The Andaman Islands form otiosus has shorter neck hackles and the crest is highly reduced while the Nicobars Island form nicobariensis has a longer frontal crest and with smaller neck hackles than otiosus. The Sri Lanka drongo (D. lophorinus) used to be treated as a subspecies as it was believed to form hybrids with ceylonicus but is now considered a separate species on the basis of their overlapping ranges. Specimens of the nominate form have sometimes been confused with the Sri Lanka drongo. Considerable variation in shape of the bill, extent of the crest, hackles and tail rackets exists in the island populations of Southeast Asia. The Bornean brachyphorus (=insularis), banguey of Banggai lack crests (banguey has frontal feathers that arch forwards) while very reduced crests are found in microlophus (=endomychus; Natunas, Anambas and Tiomans) and platurus (Sumatra). A number of forms are known along the Southeast Asian islands and mainland including formosus (Java), hypoballus (Thailand), rangoonensis (northern Burma, central Indian populations were earlier included in this) and johni (Hainan).
Young birds are duller, and can lack a crest while moulting birds can lack the elongate tail streamers. The racket is formed by the inner web of the vane but appears to be on the outer web since the rachis has a twist just above the spatula.
The distribution range of this species extends from the western Himalayas to the eastern Himalayas and Mishmi Hills in the foothills below 1,200 m (3,900 ft). They are found in the hills of peninsular India and the Western Ghats. Continuing into the west to the islands of Borneo and Java in the east through the mainland and islands.
They common whistle note that is made leads to its local name in many parts of India of kothwal (which means a "policeman" or "guard", who used a whistle that produced a similar note), a name also applied to the black drongo and in other places as the Bhimraj or Bhringaraj. In Mizo language of northeast India, it is called Vakul and the Mizo people regarded the bird as ' 'king of the birds' ' Prior to the 1950s it was often kept in captivity by people in parts of India. It was said to be very hardy and like a crow, accommodating a varied diet. Edward H. Schafer considered the greater racket-tailed drongo as the basis for the divine kalaviṅka birds mentioned in Chinese and Japanese Buddhist texts.
WW I Khaki tunic, and webbing ..
'Community event - commemorating the 100th anniversary of the end of the First World War - Cardwells Keep '
(Once the home of the Queen's (Royal West Surrey)Regiment )
Stoughton, Guildford, Surrey .
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The Wheel Bug was motionless except for an occasional, very lite breeze. It appeared dead and the webbing seemed old. Later, when I came back to take some more shots, it was gone. I looked around on the ground but found nothing. Perhaps, knowing that it was trapped, the bug had simply decided to conserve it's energy and allow it's size and weight to work to it's full advantage, eventually falling to the ground and scampering off ? Or, ...
(Note: Yes, that is a long fang appendage you see under the antennae that apparently can be quite painful!)